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Audience

This advanced course is for existing OMNIbus V7.2.1 and earlier advanced administrators and users. The course is intended to update current skill sets of OMNIbus administrators, implementors, and support personnel to version 7.3 advanced functionality.

Pre-Requisites

Prior to attending this course, you should have previous Netcool/OMNIbus Configuration and Administration experience.

Recommended courses:

IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 7.3 User (TN013), and

IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 7.3 Installation and Configuration (TN023)

Students who have completed IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 7.2 Administration and Configuration (TN022) all meet the prerequisites for this course. 

Objectives

• Describe advanced migration and upgrade procedures
• Utilize TEC migration functionality
• Discuss Globalization
• Configure product integrations and bundle refresh process
• Describe Virtualization feature
• Utilize newly included EIF SDK application and advanced communcations
• Utilize advanced command-line SQL for system maintenance
• Configure advance ObjectServer SQL configuration modifications
• Configure and implement advanced probe techniques
• Configure and implement advanced security setups
• Configure and utilize new user authentication processes
• Configure and utilize an advanced multitiered, high avalability architecture
• Describe utilization of standards and best practices
• Describe problem resolution methodologies
• Utilize advanced features and configuration tools for the Web GUI interface

Course Content

Unit 1 - Web GUI and OMNIbus Migrations/Updating

• Licensing considerations and migration
• Version compatibilities
• TEC migration Considerations
• Globalization changes

GB18030 Phase 1 compliant

Bidi language support

Translation

Unicode support

Support for GB18030

• Bundled release of OMNIbus and Tivoli Network Manager

Unit 2 - Virtualization and Operating Systems

• Virtualization support
• Operating System and system performance interrelationships

Unit 3 - Communications

• Distributed Process control
• Advanced communications elements
• Event Integration Facility (EIF) Library inclusion
• Communications protocols

Unit 4 - Advanced SQL

• Using SQL

System maintenance

Creating entities/statements using ObjectServer Data Definition Language (DDL).

Manipulating Data

Configuring basic and advanced probe processing

Creating trigger events - Improve event throughput capability - Review and optimize current default triggers in the ObjectServer

Creating filters

Automations

Tools and menus

Unit 5 - Advanced Gateways

• Configuring and installing other gateways
• Property values and changes to Bi and UNI gate entities
• ObjectServer configurations

Advanced integration w/ CCMDB

Event throughput capability

Enhanced High Availability

Unit 6 - Other Probe considerations

• Include EIF libraries and associated functions in OMNIbus
• Generate new event from a probe
• Event flood protection and event rate anomaly detection

Unit 7 - Security

• FIPS compliance
• SSL and FIPS i.e. ikeyman
• User and Group roles - external authentication and authorizations
• Fully synchronised user and group based security with ObjectServer

Unit 8 - Tiered Architecture / DSD setup

Unit 9 - Standards andBest Practices

• Internal diagnostic information
• External diagnostic information
• Tivoli Integration Initiatives 2009 - Solution Health
• Maintaining N-2 Release Compatibility
• Estimating system resource utilization

Unit 10 - Problem Resolution

• Communication interactions (Webshpere server, TIP portal, Interface File)
• Log files and diagnostics for problem resolution
• IBM Tivoli Health monitoring

Unit 11 - Web GUI Advanced Topics

• Maps, pages, server setup, Map configuration management and architecture
• View/Filter setup and administration

Scheduled Classes